—Lancaster Farming! Saturday, March % 1968 4 Front Where We Stand ... The Poultry Production “Grass Roots” Promotion Control Debate The Lancaster County Po.ultry Associa tion and the men behind it are to be con gratulated on sponsorship of the educational meeting that featured both sides of the con troversial production controls issue. (The meeting was held Tuesday night and is re ported on page one of this issue ) However, we were disappointed that more positive suggestions for solutions to the problem were not made, especially on the side of control without government in tei terence. Richard Ammon, on the side of no government controls but admitting volun tary controls don’t work, spent his time de grading the Talmadge Bill just sent to con gress And rightly so No, poultry producer could want to be controlled in the manner this bill proposes. Even Sam Berenson who took the other side of the story, told the gioup before Ammon spoke that this kind ot bill was not what he favored. Berenson’s thinking was that govern ment should control only production by is suing quotas on a graduating scale For ex ample he proposed a two percent cut-back on Hocks of 5,000 to 50,000 birds, four per cent on 50,000 to 75,000 bird flocks and six peicent on 75,000 to 100,000 bird flocks. He also would have the county agents check local situations and limit the sale of ouotas within the state We appreciate the fact that at least someone presented an idea for considera tion rather than just presenting what farm ers don’t want However, even this proposal has a big if in it, because it is dependent on government controlling only a small part of the industry. And we doubt the consumer oriented congress would be satisfied to have it’s hands on only a small part of control But, both sides agree voluntary control w ill not work because it hasn’t. And every one must agree that some solution must be lound for producers (those who do the phy sical labor) if they are to survive the shock ot twelve months of below cost poultry and egg prices. At any rate, whichever side you are on. the meeting served to create more in telligent thinking And that we need. But we also need positive action to control produc tion Either, voluntary cut-back or govern ment administrated control whichever pro ducers want And they better soon want one or the other or there will not be any pro duction to cut They’ll be out of business At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand Farm News This Week Milk Chairman Huber, Concedes Unfair Prices Paid To Farmers Page 9 Chicago Exchange Representative Presents Futures Information Page 1 Poultry Debate Featured At Educational Meeting Page 1 Tobacco Controls Are Voted Down 1,646 to 388 Page 1 Hostetter Is Elected County DHIA President Page 1 Soil And Water Directors Plan Annual Meeting Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191 Everett R Newswanger, Editor Robert G Campbell, Adveitising Director Subscription price $2 per year in Lancaster County $3 elsewhere Established November 4 1955 Published every Saturday by Lancaster Fanning Lititz, Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa, 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn. When did you last serve pork to guests? Or use any fresh pork cut besides pork chops? These questions were part of a quiz which Wes Howe, pork manager for Kroger Company, threw at Illinois pork producers .recently during a talk on promotion. Some of the hogmen looked a little sheepish; couldn’t answer the questions. Howe’s point; The individual producer can start with “grass roots” promotion among his* friends in town or even at home. And we heard about the true story of the Lancaster County farmer who tried to humiliate his herdsman in front of the veterinarian by asking, “What do you think of him? He uses margarine.” To which the doctor replied, “Oh, not too bad considering what you are doing.” At first the farmer didn’t understand but soon he walked red facedly toward the calf barn carrying two pails of (you guessed it) milk replacer The moral is that if farmers don’t use their own products they can’t expect others to either At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ ★ Thank You To Whom? Yesterday, March 1, was declared as National Day of Prayer which brings to mind the writing ot Lola Janes, from the state ol Oregon, who wrote in Farm Jour nal's Letters From Farm Women: “My hus band and I were commenting one morning about a letter in a newspaper advice column. A man had written, objecting to his son’s saying thank-you to God for his food at mealtime. The father felt he himself should be thanked since he earned the money to buy the food. We joked about this point of view, then forgot about the inci dent But not our five-year-old son. “At supper that night, Donny said the blessing. He looked up at his father and said:- ‘Thank you, Daddy, for my food.’ Then he bowed his head and continued: ‘Thank you, God, for my Daddy. . .’ ” Across The Fence Rew You can’t control the length of your life, But you can control its width and depth; You can’t control the contour of your countenance, But you can control its expression; You can’t control the other fellow’s opportunities, But you can grasp your own; You can’t control the weather, But you can control the moral atmosphere which surrounds you; You can’t control hard times or rainy days, But you can bank money now to boost you through both ; So, why worry about things you can’t control? Get busy controlling things that depend on you. Some people tall for everything and stand tor nothing. Then there’s this story: A farmer wrote to a rural paper to ask “how long cows should be milked.” “Why the same as short cows, of course,” advised the editor Weather Forecast The five-day forecast calls for tempera tures to average below normal with day time highs in the mid 30’s and overnight lows in the 20’s Cold Saturday, Sunday, and Monday Near seasonable temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday. Normal high is 46 and low is 27. Precipitation may total less than one fourth inch water equivalent. Snow mainly over the mountains Monday night or Tues day. pi glad that I-eha nat that you may believe. " Bjfl'flH time the messenger arrives wip news of Lazarus’s slcknes* Jesut knows that his friend has tiled la the meantime. There Is no need to rush off to Bethany to savs a lift that already is gone. Therefore Jesus’ delay was partly dependent upon the fact that he knew whdl the others did not know. So It may be with our payee* to God. We pray in«ur Jgaot ranee, but he answers them out of the context of his divine know edge and wisdom. What wemaf ask may not. be really wise ot good in the long run. He give* 1 bis children .What they need, not r«urWSerii,K»r«Mir ii. necessarily what they ask foa. uJbm John M Ml. CannQt *V n q{ Someone has suggested that God I have not received all front the burning theological oueetton God that I have asked for?” today is not so much, "It God For example, a boy and glr| dead?”, but "Why isn’t he more break off their engagement. Late* prompt?” the girl has a change of heMl What they mean, of course, la and begins to pray mat God wfft 'Ore surely threat- lead her ex-fiancee back to her. ened when God Not an unreasonable desire, until seems to delay in she learnt,that he has since mat* WHEN 6H BELAYS Lmsoii for Much 3,1968 answering may^ doubt His Way And Ours somuchhisexist- When Jesus arrives at tha ence as his love, tomb, he does not ask God to do "If God really anything. Instead he thanks God cares,” we ask, for what he has already done! "then where is the Even though Lazarus is still ia Rev Althous* help I need-?” the tomb, Jesus prays: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard T _ me ” (John 11:41 RSV). J«* TWO Days Longer SUS has been praying for Laza- We sense some of this same at- rus all along and now in perfect titude in the hearts of Martha and confidence he looks to the fulfill-* Mary. Anxiously they waited for ment of those prayers. He did Jesus to come while their broth- not delay in helping his friends, er’s life ebbed ever lower. Often but he was helping them in a way when human help fails to come, it that they did not expect, is the result of someone’s negli- So it may be with our prayers, gence or some other human fail- We ask for help and expect that ure. But it is not this in Jesus’s God will give us that help ac cuse. The delay is purposeful: cording to our terms, to follow “So when he heard that he was our directions. If we want him to ill, he stayed two days longer in help us, we must let God be God, the place where he was” (John for him Id help us as he knows 11:6 RSV). best. Justhecause we cannot s«o If, as John says, Jesus loved the answer to our prayers, does Martha, .Mary, and Lazarus, not mean they are not being an« then why did he delay? That’s a swered. strange way to show love! When Jesus delayed returning to at last Jesus arrives in Bethany, Bethany because he loved Mary, there seems to be a thinly-dis- Martha, and Lazarus. Even front, guised reproach in Martha’s this tragic death God would, voice: "Lord, if you have been wring a blessing. In fact, if ho here, my brother would not have delayed, the blessing would bo died” (John 11:21 RSV). Appar- even greater! ently others felt the same thing, And so Jesus said, "Lazarus, for as Jesus is led to the tomb of come out!” and he came out and Lazarus, a bystander asks: their faith was justified. Thus al " Could not he who opened the so may our faith be justified if wo eyes of the blind man have kept continue to trust in him, svea this man'from dying?” (John 11:' though he seems to delay. 37 RSV). The question seems fair enough, like some which we our selves have perhaps asked. Our ignorance So why does the Master delay? Jesus says to his disciples:' Laza rus is dead, and for your sake I To Eradicate Johnsongrass . . . We aie avvaie of a number of farms with johnsongrass infesta tion and want to stress the im portance of complete control, this grassy weed is known as the “green 'monster” of any crop land and is very difficult to con trol It resembles Sudan grass with similar heads but its white fleshy roots separate the two grasses > This grass will take over a held in a few years and almost eliminate the chance Oi any crop Control requires spraying with dalapon or ammo- T when growth is 10 to 12 inches high and repeat sprays or deep tillage for the balance of the se son The field should not be planted to any crops until com plete control is attained Special attention to these areas is rec ommended To Creep Feed Lambs Local sheep producers who are planning to sell their early lambs for the Easter market should be giving them extra gram through our ried someon»«be! (!«s• Community friss S«rvic») 1 NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent < the creep feeder, this will re sult in more weight and a higher quality lamb to market In most years the Easter market is one of the highest priced times to market lambs Simple gram mixtures containing corn and oats in the feeder are recom mended To Observe Winter Grains Closely The very dry weather condi tions in the past month may have done considerable damage to much of our winter grain crop, this is especially true with winter barley With the wheat fields growers are reminded of the value of top-dressing with nitrogen about the middle tvT| March, or when spring growth, gets started This will stimulate the plants and could thicken the stand and result in greater yields The amount per acre will vary from 25 to 50 pounds de pending upon fertility and lodg ing problems